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Popular Yoruba actress, Folake Aremu, also known as Orisabunmi, has passed on.
Orisabunmi, who usually played the role of a good witch in most of her films, was said to have died at her residence in Ibadan on Tuesday night.
The actress who died at 60 was very popular in the 80s, 90s to early 2000
A senior member of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Tunde Ola-Yusuff, announced the death in a Facebook post on Wednesday morning.
Ola Yusuf’s post read, “Adieu: She left without a goodbye. The sudden death of Mrs Fokake Aremu (Orisabunmi) has been announced.
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Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission has said correction of details in the National Identity Number (NIN) will attract varying charges.
The NIMC Regional Coordinator, Funmi Opesanwo, stated this on Wednesday at the commission’s office in the Alausa area of Lagos State, South West, Nigeria.
Opesanwo said there are different services that the commission offers, noting that NIN enrolment is free but there are fees attached to card renewal, correction of date of birth, and change of address.
According to her, “The money we charge is for modification For the date of birth correction, the processing fee is N15,000. For card renewal or card replacement, there is a processing fee of N5,000. For a modification of your name and address, there is a fee of N500?
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Tuesday upheld its December 3, 2020 decision to increase crude oil production output by 500,000 barrels per day for February and March, 2021.
The plan will, however, see Nigeria cut production by an additional 939,000 barrels in adherence to the resolution, with reference production set for the country by OPEC put at 1.829 million barrels per day in January, February and March.
But the required production per month will be 1,516 million barrels per day, a reduction of 313,000 barrels per day for each of the months.
The document also showed that Russia and Saudi Arabia have a reference production of 11 million barrels per day respectively, but will only be allowed to pump 9.1 million bpd for the period under review.
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 576 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 89,163. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Saturday. “On the 2nd of January 2021, 576 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in […]
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Saudi Arabia on Sunday announced the reopening of borders and the resumption of international flights after a two-week suspension aimed to stem the spread of a new Covid-19 strain.
The government ordered the lifting of “precautionary measures related to the spread of a new variant of coronavirus”, the Ministry of the Interior said, according to the official
Saudi Press Agency.
Saudi Arabia has recorded more than 363,000 cases, including over 6,200 deaths –- the highest among the Gulf Arab states – but has also reported a high recovery rate.
Riyadh suspended international flights and access through land crossings and ports on December 21.